Remembering Hiroshima, 68 years ago

Let's repeat that.  Using  the ratio of American dead to Japanese dead, if American troops had undertaken a conventional  invasion of Japan instead of dropping the bomb "we arrive at a figure of at least two million Japanese dead."  And 100,000 dead Americans. 
Anderson concludes

The losses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terrible, but not as terrible as the number of Japanese who would have died as the result of an invasion. The revisionist historians of the 1960s - and their disciples - are quite wrong to depict the decision to use the bombs as immoral. It would have been immoral if they had not been used.

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